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A Drumbeat for Open Source in K-12

Mozilla Drumbeat is a global community of people and projects using technology to help internet users understand, participate and take control of their online lives.

I’ve done a bit of head-scratching over what one possible Drumbeat project aimed at K-12 education might look like.

If you have an interest in helping K-12 education make better [...]

On Beyond T-Shirts

To help spread the word about the Jetpack for Learning design challenge, I worked-up a design for a Jetpack for Learning t-shirt for Second Life avatars. But that didn’t really do justice to Sean Martell’s nifty Jetpack design.
So… since almost anything is possible in Second Life, an actual flyable virtual Jetpack seemed like a [...]

Mozilla Jetpack for Learning

The Mozilla Foundation invites you to help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore new possibilities for learning online as part of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge.

For this Design Challenge they are looking for innovative Firefox add-ons that turn the open Web into a rich learning environment.

Jetpack [...]

Drumbeat - Open the Web by Opening Data

Mark Surman and others at Mozilla have been mulling over Drumbeat, an effort to promote awareness of the benefits of an open web. In his most recent blog post, Mark asks “what concrete things could Mozilla and Drumbeat do to support people creating civic and social value on the web?” …and he has posted [...]

How Math Teachers Can Help Improve the Web

Mozilla Labs has a plug-in for the awesome Firefox browser that helps them collect information about how people use the browser. As with all things Mozilla, the Test Pilot plug-in is open. It shows you all of the data it has collected and lets you decide whether or not to send it along to [...]

Making Firefox the Killer-App for K-12 Education

There are some projects over at Mozilla Labs that just might make it possible to turn Firefox into the “killer-app” for K-12 education, both in North America, and around the world.

JetPack is a set of tools for extending the browser using open, standards-based technologies like CSS, HTML, and Javascript.
Prism is another labs project that lets [...]

Boffo Eduspeak Jargon Generator from the Far North

Need to explain to your school board why you need to “recontextualize experiential multiple modality instruction” or how you plan to “synthesize metacognitive functionalities” in next year’s curriculum?

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